Daily Bafflements

• Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, seems to have a finger in every pie. According to a report from Forbes, it turns out that the tech billionaire has been bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s, a.k.a. Terry Bollea’s, lawsuit against Gawker. While it’s unclear how or why Thiel is backing Hogan’s litigation efforts, he’s on the record as having a longstanding grudge against the company, which outed him as gay in 2007 and has written extensively about his bizarre right-wing politics. But, hey, so have we!